· Public charity
Dover Firemen's Relief Association
To provide retirment benefits to members of the DOVER FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION or their lawful beneficiaries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $299,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $385,296 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,196 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF DOVER | $240,150 |
| CITY OF DE GRAFF | $19,174 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,620 |
| DOVER-EYOTA SCHOOLS | $9,431 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $6,725 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF THE TWIN CITIES | $6,000 |
| THE LANDING MN | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM6× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +347%
- TLTHE LANDING MN3× · 2021–2023 · $27k · revenue +68%
- RMROCHESTER MN SPORTS3× · 2018–2022 · $23k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- OCOLMSTED COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +9%
- PAPHEASANTS AND HABITAT UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2017 · $18k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation drives economic vitality in Downtown Rochester through innovation and collaboration.
Planning and developing future community facility needs to utilizing local input and resources to attain outcomes determined by rochester sports foundation leadership.
Provide youth of the rochester minnesota area the opportunity to learn and play volleyball.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
Collider foundation activates, connects, and empowers entrepreneurs in rochester, minnesota. we believe in a community with zero barriers to entrepreneurship for anyone with a strong business idea and the passion to see it grow.
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Thrive family resource center's mission is to help break the cycle of poverty by offering high quality child care and family support. we are building community, one family at a time.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service Rochester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rochester Public School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING MN ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MN SPORTS ↗
- Who funds OLMSTED COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION OF A CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BUILDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION OF ROCHESTER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA NATIONAL WRESTLING DUALS ↗
- Who funds BEAR CREEK SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA HOMES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Foundation · Mayo Clinic · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dover Firemen's Relief Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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